Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762
Cambridge University Press (1997)
| Abstract | Rousseau and Geneva reconstructs the main aspects of Genevan socio-economic, political and religious thought in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this way Dr Rosenblatt effectively contextualizes the development of Rousseau's thought from the First Discourse through to the Social Contract. Over time Rousseau has been adopted as a French thinker, but this adoption obscures his Genevan origin. Dr Rosenblatt points out that he is, in fact, a Genevan thinker and illustrates for the first time that Rousseau's classical republicanism, his version of natural law theory, his civil religion, and his hostility to the arguments of doux commerce theorists are all responses to the political use of such arguments in Geneva. The author also points out that it was this relationship with Geneva that played an integral part in his development into an original political thinker. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Calvinism History | |||||||||
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| Call number | JC179.R9.R67 1997 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521570042 9780521570046 | |||||||||
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